Barrina South has chosen a word from the language of her Barkindji ancestry in far western NSW — Makarra, meaning rain — for the title of her first poetry anthology, to be launched this weekend in Queanbeyan, where she lives.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Berin Denham and his partner Shell Abdoo have written an intensely personal musical, Only Everything, which opens this weekend... and there's a happy ending the audience won't see.
A live audiovisual experience created by Australian artist and composer Robin Fox continues the National Film and Sound Archive’s recent visual and audial attack upon our senses, in the best possible way.
The National Gallery of Australia has announced that the winner of its $60 million National Sculpture Garden Design Competition is the team CO-AP Holdings.
In her latest Arts in the City column, HELEN MUSA reports that Vince Jones is in town for an intimate evening of jazz.
The final season of The Wharf Revue opens in Canberra lat this month. HELEN MUSA talks with member Phillip Scott.
Paul Capsis’ Canberra fans will doubtless be delighted by the weird characters he’ll be playing on stage at the Canberra Theatre soon in Peter and the Starcatcher, a spectacle bursting with 100 characters, music and technical wizardry.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column, a weekly wrap of what's on where.
With the Oriana Chorale’s 50th anniversary coming up in a few years, it has announced its inaugural Emerging Composer in Residence Program open to all Australian citizens who are emerging composers, reports HELEN MUSA.
"The director’s choice to ignore the satire in this show resulted in the cast playing too broadly to try and make the script funny," writes reviewer LEN POWER of a new production of The Little Shop of Horrors.
"There were no prizes for guessing why so many people had packed into Wesley Music Centre, including an impressive turnout from the Korean community and their children, perhaps themselves budding pianists." HELEN MUSA reviews Jeonghwan Kim.
HELEN MUSA reviews Women’s Music & Poetry from Latin America at Wesley Music Centre.
